Nobody Loves a Parade ...
... not a military one dictators have to celebrate themselves. It was great that they played "Fortunate Son"
“Amazing. Despite the threat of rain, over 250,000 patriots showed up to celebrate the 250th anniversary [of the United States Army],” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung boasted on X. For anyone with functioning eyesight who is not completely submerged in the Trump Cult and saw the images of yesterday’s celebrate-the-dictator-who-mocks-people-in-the-military parade that is a spit-out-your-coffee level absurdity.
It is, though nothing new for the “Who ya gonna believe, your lyin’ eyes or me?” Trump. When the crowd for his first inauguration in 2017 was miniscule in comparison with the massive turnout for Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 (I was there and know the photos are accurate), Trump ordered his press secretary, Sean Spicer, to tell what may have been Trump’s biggest lie until he claimed he won the 2020 Election. “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration—period.”
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News organizations published comparative photos of the crowds:
Pressed on Spicer’s lie by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, Trump White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway memorably remarked that Spicer was using “alternative facts.”
“Alternative facts” have been the stock-in-trade of Trump and his minions throughout his career.
Not only was attendance underwhelming for his birthday event, but large numbers of those who were there rushed for the exits before Trump spoke.
And the audio system blasted out Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 song, “Fortunate Son,” which attacks, from the perspective of a working-class American like those who imagine Trump gives a shit about them, people like draft-dodger Trump:
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Hoo, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord…
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, Lord?
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah…
Yeah-yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
Hoo, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"
Hoo, they only answer, “More, more, more, more”It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no military son, son, Lord
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, one
One strongly suspects that playing this song at bone-spurs Trump’s military parade was an intentional act of sabotage by some patriot in the military who doesn’t appreciate being referred to as a “sucker” or “loser” and to seeing a president try to use the American military against our own people in an effort to overturn the Republic and Constitution to which people in the military swear allegiance. Trump did, too, but he has said he “doesn’t know” whether he has to follow the Constitution.
Meanwhile, of course, literally millions of American patriots across the nation were coming out for “No Kings” protests.
Poor, poor, pitiful Donny.